Combination of 5, 3 minute images unfiltered.
SBIG STL-1001E CCD. 20" f/6.8 Dall-Kirkham cassegrain telescope at prime focus.
NGC 488 is a moderately large and bright face-on spiral galaxy in Pisces. In an 18 inch telescope it appears as a round patch of light, slightly brighterr in the centre. There are numerous fainter galaxies in the above image. The brightest is the 15.6 magnitude NGC 492. It is the brighter of the pair of galaxies to the upper left of NGC 488.
